The manifestation of mosquito-borne diseases in the Philippines

Mosquito borne-diseases in a tropical country such as the Philippines is widely known to be

common. A recent study asserted that increasing global weather caused by climate crisis could see
mosquitos that transmit diseases; chikungunya, dengue, zika, and yellow fever (Messina et al.
2019). In the first six months of 2019, about 100,000 dengue cases were registered across the
Philippines, an increase of 85 percent over the same period last year. This epidemics have been
recorded in four regions of the country , which include Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Central Visayas,
and Northern Mindanao, which are home to more than 20 million people, or approximately 20% of
the population of the Philippines (Dayaram, 2019). According to the WHO Epidemiological
Overview 2019 survey, the number of cases of dengue in the Philippines increased significantly in
2019 compared with previous years . Due to the increase in confirmed cases of mosquitoborne viral
disease, the Department of Health ( DOH) announced a national dengue warning on 15 July 2019.
On August 6, 2019 ,the alert threshold1 was exceeded by Regions III, X, XII and Autonomous Zone of
Muslim Mindanao ( ARMM), while the epidemic threshold2 was exceeded by Regions IVA, V , VI, VIII
and IX.
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